Distal renal tubular acidosis is a syndrome of abnormal urine acidification and is characterized by hyperchloremic metabolic acidosis, hypokalemia, hypercalciurea, nephrocalcinosis and nephrolithiasis. Despite the presence of persistent hypokalemia, acute muscular paralysis is rarely encountered in males.Here, we will report an eighteen year old male patient who presented with flaccid quadrip...

BACKGROUND Cicletanine is an antihypertensive agent with vasorelaxant and diuretic properties. It has been widely used in European countries; however, cicletanine-associated electrolyte disturbances have yet to be defined. We investigated cicletanine-induced hyponatremia and hypokalemia in kidney transplant patients. METHODS Data from a total of 68 kidney transplant recipients who were treate...

Hypokalemia occurs frequently in patients undergoing peritoneal dialysis (PD). However, the therapeutic strategy may differ from that of non-PD-related hypokalemia. We investigated clinical features and related factors of de novo hypokalemia in incident PD patients. We retrospectively enrolled 82 normokalemic patients starting PD at Gachon University Gil Hospital, Korea. The patients were divid...

introduction a sudden loss of consciousness followed by abnormal movements can be ictal or syncopal in origin. transient response by the brain to sudden decrease of blood flow may cause sudden loss of consciousness followed by abnormal movements that mimic seizure. dysrhythmia is one of the important and critical reasons of such events that should be differentiated from seizure. case presentati...

we have studied hypokalemic action of different diuretics in a cooperative study on 28 patients and our results are as follows: i. 28 patients (18 male and 10 female) were the subject of our present study. 2. e. c. g. was taken systematically on all individuals. 3. clinical signs and symptoms of hypokalemia was looked for in d lily examination of the patients. 4. dietary k, na, and ci could not...

abstract a 26 -year- old woman presented with rhabdomyolysis secondary to severe hypokalemia. hypertension and metabolic alkalosis could lead to the suspicion of primary aldosteronism, which was confirmed by a decreased plasma rennin, elevated plasma aldosterone levels and high aldosterone/rennin ratio additionally. additionally adrenal computed tomography showed an adrenal tumour. blood pressu...

Objective: To study serum electrolyte derangements among children with acute diarrhea presenting dehydration. Study Design: Cross-sectional and descriptive study. Place Duration of Study: This was conducted at Poonch Medical College, Rawlakot Shalamar & Dental Lahore in the duration from January, 2022 to June, 2022. Methods: There were 132 severe The ages ranged one year twelve. Children's ...

Imipenem-cilastatin and piperacillin-tazobactam are two antibiotics with broad antimicrobial coverage. Besides the many well established adverse effects of these drugs, there have been few case reports of hypokalemia. Here we present an interesting case of resistant hypokalemia caused by these drugs leading to Torsades de Pointes which has never been reported in the past. Hypokalemia resolved w...

The aims of our study were (1) to determine the prevalence hypokalemia, (2) evaluate predictors for and (3) show influence hypokalemia on in-hospital outcome (mortality, adverse events, length stay) in a general trauma cohort. We performed four-year retrospective analyzed during hospitalization all adult patients admitted Level-1 center. A total 7692 consecutive included further analyzed. used ...